My Furtive Muse
...The muzzle flash of the moon is infused with clouds
where the brightness tapers off on knees that poke through
the slit in her dress; the hem slips off her crossed legs.
Gunpowder in sieves flec...
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Categories:
whinnying, eve, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I, Mustang
...I, Mustang, am the stuff of legends
Roaming the Northwestern badlands
Of the United States in small herds.
I'm poetry...
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Categories:
whinnying, animal, horse, imagery,
Form: Personification
In My Dreams
...In my dreams I am outrunning horses
They strive to catch up, whinnying and neighing
I laugh; my hair is streaming so hard in their faces.
I am now the wind, catching them up in an exuberant way
I...
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Categories:
whinnying, animal,
Form: Free verse
Haven From the Storm
...Two young lovers discern from up afar
a night heron in its graceful lithe flight
searching safe haven as storm hide its star
danger threatening it from its dire plight.
An owl's screech pierc...
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Categories:
whinnying, storm,
Form: Sonnet
Poems About Things That Break Ii
...Poems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every ...
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Categories:
whinnying, break up, depression, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
See
...See
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her e...
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Categories:
whinnying, age, goodbye, life, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Virility Imperiled Manhood Emasculated Mine
...Virility Imperiled Manhood Emasculated (mine)
No sense of accomplishment prevails to date
analogous to kudzu... inadequacy runs rampant
recurring theme extant within poetic endeavors,
and often...
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Categories:
whinnying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Bio
Horses of Lonely Valley
...( Magic nine )
Peaceful, serenity, green lush pastures,
Shadows reflected by the surounding hills,
Blue granite painted by grand masters,
Clear waters, stream flowing gallantly
Gracefully...
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Categories:
whinnying, animal, appreciation, horse, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Waiting
...For more than forty years he mustered horses to the yard,
Reminding all the younger blokes “You’ve ‘gotta’ stay on guard,
For even decent broken horses have a spirit that is high,
And the months o...
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Categories:
whinnying, horse,
Form: Rhyme
The Dark, Dark Room
...The Halloween Party was in full swing
Witches, wizards and an alien thing
with tentacles and one huge eye
Flourishing a laser gun shouting "Die".
Alison and her friends Ada and Jo
Were all dre...
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Categories:
whinnying, adventure, halloween, horror, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
The Running Chestnut- Onomatopoetic
...what a running chestnut sounds like when Parting ways with a damsel ...
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Categories:
whinnying, funny, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Old Horse Star
...Old Star stood in the horse pad-dock so dry,
with the others he'd just been run in.
The Manager gave orders, he now had to die,
the Jackaroo's job was to kill him.
Brown Star was Tuppy's favou...
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Categories:
whinnying, adventureold, star, horse, old,
Form: Rhyme
Estefania Was the Spanish Horse
...Estephania was the Spanish horse,
with a chestnut coat and mane
and a lighter long tail...and she ate
alfalfa for strong teeth and bones.
She was domesticated, losing her liberty
and neig...
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Categories:
whinnying, animals, death, food, loss,
Form: Quatrain